"Paddle water" in Tianshui is not only a popular spoken word, but also a folk custom and way of life, is a hot word. It's just that "pulp water" and "pulp water surface" are completely different words: "pulp water" is a kind of food condiment, "pulp water surface" is a kind of food; "pulp water surface" Tianshui is called "sauerkraut rice" locally. As for why Tianshui people are related to "paddle water"? There are many sayings, and the most affirmative of the local folk is that it has the effect of "clearing fire and defeating poison", which is popular: that is, clearing heat and detoxification, cooling off the heat and removing the fire. Those who have not been to Tianshui or lived in Tianshui naturally do not know or believe that the oar water has the function of "clearing heat and detoxification" where is the mystery?
1. Precious food "pulp water surface". In the hot summer or hot summer, the function of "paddle water" will be greater than the role of edible condiments, but pingsu paddle water is the most common daily food of Tianshui people, or (Han) a kind of pasta snack, whether noble or low, rich or poor. Home-cooked rice in the vast area of Tianshui, especially in the countryside: fermented sauerkraut is boiled into a soup, stir-fried vegetables are added to make noodles, or cooked noodles are eaten directly with paddle water. To make "paddle water", it is generally made of fresh celery, cabbage (cabbage), mustard and other fermented leaders, and the best paddle water can be made with bitter lettuce. Its characteristics: soup white, fragrant, sour taste, can quench thirst, clear heat and heat. To sum up, the function of Tianshui paddle water is roughly three layers. One is heat and detoxification; the second is to adjust the taste; the third is to live (supplement) food. The method is very, very simple: celery and other long-stemmed fresh vegetables are rinsed, cut into inches, put into boiling water to pull (slightly boiled) (5 mature can be), control the excess water into the tank, and then add the original paddle water as a starter (locals called "meson"). There is already paddle water according to this method, you can save the leavening agent), and then burn half a pot of cooked soup with flour (according to the volume control of the cylinder) after stirring evenly, cover it tightly with a towel, two days in summer, 3 days in winter can be opened and uncovered, and a jar of fragrant and beautiful paddle water is made. Short-stemmed leafy vegetables such as bitter alfalfa and alfalfa do not need to be cut, and the whole vegetable can be processed according to the previous method.
In fact, "pulp water" also has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat and treating diseases, and can be used as a drink alone. If it is hot in the summer, drinking a bowl of pulp water, the meal will make people feel cool and fast, but also relieve fatigue, restore physical strength; often eat "pulp water surface" can also cure some diseases, such as hypertension patients often eat some celery pulp water, can play a role in reducing and stabilizing blood pressure; some diseases of the gastrointestinal and urinary system also have a certain effect. Some hospitals use slurry water with drugs to treat burns, which can greatly reduce the pain of patients and achieve significant curative effect.
The "pulp water surface" method is: first cut into slices with garlic, put the garlic slices into the oil until slightly yellow, then add the paddle water to the pot and set aside. Processing ingredients: 1, fresh and tender leeks (fine leaf dry leeks are better) after washing, dry and cut into small pieces, add salt to slightly marinate, and then use cooked hot oil to boil; 2, the cut into rounded fresh peppers (the line spicy is the most) fried, and finally the water noodles (hand-rolled noodles are best. Tianshui also has a unique flavor similar to the "pulp water surface" soup food - "multigrain noodles". "Mixed grain noodles" is actually another method of "pulp water surface": noodles are cooked with buckwheat, beans, corn and other flours plus slightly high temperature water and thicker noodles, cut into roots and set aside; when boiling water, add potatoes cut into thick stems and cook them thoroughly (soup water can also be directly into the noodles) underneath, and the potatoes are fished out again, and the slurry water is more uniform. "Multigrain noodles" eat the taste, and the taste mainly comes from potatoes that are close to boiling into a paste. If there is less potatoes, don't talk about "multigrain noodles" delicious!
In the past, rural people married their wives, and there were two ways to test whether they were skillful: one was to see the hand-rolled noodles; the other was to look at the needlework) after filling the bowl and pouring it into the paddle water, putting some pickled leeks, adding fried pepper condiments (the rural people call it "next dish") A bowl of fragrant paddle water surface was placed on the table, you, especially just from the hot weather sweating, dry throat and eyes straight up smoke back home, the first smell is the fragrant seductive paddle water surface, can you not salivate, appetite? In addition, when people who go out or leave their hometown to live in a foreign country take time to go home or suddenly return to their hometown one day to visit, the first sentence of most people after leaving is: They want to eat the "pulp water surface" of their hometown. It is also specially ding: the pulp water is sour and clear, and the next dish is pickled leeks and fried peppers. Of course, this phrase is a bit redundant for returning home regularly and having this "hobby". The family is completely in accordance with this routine, the water in the pot is boiled, the noodles are cut, and the footsteps waiting for you to enter the door... Put the noodles into the pot. And when you just sit down, a bowl of steaming hot water, overflowing with acid and fragrance appears in front of you, and you are usually not in a hurry to eat, but beautifully suck two mouthfuls of pulp water, and then the expression that comes out when Youzi smacks your mouth is comfortable, is it comfortable, is it satisfied, is it drunk? How can you describe it in one word? In this situation, can you still say: "Paddle water" is the exclusive supply of poor people? If this claim is not sufficient to prove it. Then, more and more people in the city, especially some "successful people" who are a bit confident, whenever relatives and friends gather, important customers have appointments, regardless of the long distance and the car, the money, time and effort will always put the meeting place in the countryside "farmhouse", will not be eating "reminiscence rice" or simple "nostalgia", right?
When the author learned: "Tianshui Slurry Water" has gone out of the house and appeared in supermarkets and food stores in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. And Tianshui City has a number of workshops specializing in processing "pulp water", and even a large-scale assembly line operation of the "Tianshui specialty 'pulp water'" processing plant, the brain suddenly jumped out of the sentence with a more cultural standard, and the folk praise "pulp water" poem: "A spoonful of clear soup is not abandoned, and the fire and poison are magic medicine" when the emotion is infinite, the thoughts are full of thoughts...
2. Relief of "sauerkraut noodles". Poor or economically inferior to others as supplementary food "paddle water" production raw materials are also much cheaper: generally use sparse vegetables, vegetable edge leaves, even potatoes, carrots and other hard vegetables are raw materials for paddle water. The production method is appropriate, and it can also make a fragrant and beautiful paddle water, but the locals who make these raw materials are no longer called "paddle water", but have a completely different name: "sauerkraut"! These people's food is also very special: the staple food is usually sauerkraut and potatoes, while pasta is complementary or complementary. For the economic conditions are very poor, the staple food of extremely poor people is basically "sauerkraut soup". As the name suggests, it is called "sauerkraut soup", sauerkraut is the "protagonist", and other foods are the "minions" of the dragon set: a pot of water is boiled, added to the potatoes and cooked over low heat, and then boiled with very little flour with water while pouring into the pot while stirring evenly, adding slurry water when it is cooked and overflowing, and a meal of "sauerkraut soup" is made. Even now, its cost base is not more than yuan (there is almost no cost: the raw materials for making sauerkraut are mostly wild vegetables, which only require people to work hard; potatoes and cooking oil are costs for urban people, and for extremely poor people, they are dispensable; salt is a common cost). Spectators do not laugh and taunt! There is a folk saying: the emperor is in trouble, and it is happy to be able to drink a bowl of hot soup! What shoes to wear on what road to walk, what song to sing before what mountain.
Careful people will slowly "taste" will understand the point of the Tao: since it is called "dish", it is naturally part of the food or supplementary part, but the grade is low; "pulp water surface" is made of slurry water as soup, plus oil spicy seeds, green onions, coriander, etc. to make food, Tianshui urban and rural people like a unique pasta, but also a staple food: there must be a meal (noodles) in a day. Of course, there is a difference between summer and winter: the summer climate is dry and hot, and eating a paddle on the water is enjoyable; in the winter, it is late and early, and eating noodles is conducive to digestion... This way of eating is a deliberate and invisible "big health".
When you solve this "mystery", you will definitely shoot the case: the original life mood is so interesting and colorful! Shortly after stepping into the door of the middle school, after my father left in an accident at work, the already ordinary family suddenly lost its balance and suddenly fell into the poverty cave, so that our family could rely on "sauerkraut potato soup" to maintain their lives, survive and grow up in a situation that was almost suffocating..... So far, the author's gratitude for sauerkraut and his love for potatoes are no less than the reverence and worship of "saints"! And when words and deeds are consistent: the diet is not abandoned from the beginning to the end of the "pulp water" and "potatoes"!
At the request of friends, "catch the fashion" has also been to the "farmhouse" several times to eat. During this period, in addition to the normal recounting of the old and talking about the new, gossip and anecdotes, often naturally and unnaturally transfer the first chat to food, and sometimes run to "food safety", "rural life", "human conscience" and "social morality" and so on... On the topic, it is inevitable to lead to a cloud of resentment, anger, and even endless arguments. Even friends and family, as long as they open their mouths, there will be two "relative" sounds! At my age, the inconvenience of ginseng and the time "and thin mud" to gram "water and soil are not satisfied"!
Or because of their respective living environments, locations, their ideology, living latitude and longitude are different to produce distance. I have not been confused: what kind of Chinese people have to sprinkle a pinch of "(political) pepper"?
Ben is relaxed and happy, oh. Boss: Come to a bowl of "pulp water noodles", next dish: stir-fried chili diced pickled leeks!
Gou Baodi: You Junfeng, pen name Qin Han, Gansu Tianshui people. Electricity worker, freelance writer. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the secretary general of Gansu Electric Power Literature and a director of the Qin'an County Writers Association. Since 1996, he has published his works, and has won many awards in the "National Literary Works Grand Prix", and some of them have been included in "Selected Chinese Prose", "The Grand View of Contemporary Chinese Prose", "Selected Works of the National Literary Works Grand Prix" (prose volume), (poetry volume) and so on. He is the author of long and medium-length reportage "A Network of Affection", "The Land Bears Witness", "The Pole Eye Long March Road", and the prose collection "Naqu, That Water Mill" published the "Plateau Color" prose collection. Published more than one million words.